My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

— Bette Davis

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

— Bette Davis

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

— Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

— Bette Davis

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

— Bette Davis

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is that they can't get work in the movies.

— Bette Davis

The real actor - like any real artist- has a direct line to the collective heart.

— Bette Davis

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can brave or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

— Bette Davis

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

— Bette Davis

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. Furthermore, they are insatiable. Furthermore, they are always parched and always bitter. Furthermore, they are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

— Bette Davis